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MARTIN C. FREDRICKS IV: Four The Record — The Alleged “Distractees” – Not Our Daughters And Sisters — Must Change

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Gender Bias Needs to Be Removed from Dress-Code Enforcement in Fargo Public Schools Each year, Fargo Public Schools officials tell our daughters  — sometimes explicitly, often implicitly — they will be a “distraction” to other students and teachers if they wear spaghetti-strap tops that are “too revealing,” pants that are “too tight” or skirts that are “too short.” The “too” statements are …

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MARTIN C. FREDRICKS IV: Four The Record — Celebrate The Weird

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Flowers are Spectrum-Colored. People are Weird. And Nothing You Say Can Change My Mind. And she said, “Flowers are red.” “Flowers are red young man / Green leaves are green / There’s no need to see flowers any other way / Than the way they always have been seen.” She’s a teacher, a character in a late 1970s song by …

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MARTIN C. FREDRICKS IV: Four The Record — Not One Red Cent

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The Forum of Fargo initially said it was $104,528.22. Then the mayor said it was more like $10,000 over the daily cost of law enforcement. The deputy police chief said city law enforcement “… accrued only $1,200 in overtime.” A commentator from The Forum said it was actually $31,147.58. The cost of President Trump’s event in Fargo in support of …

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MARTIN C. FREDRICKS IV: Four The Record — I Am A Patriotic American

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Don’t Try To Tell Me Otherwise I am a patriotic American. BECAUSE I AM — I believe life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness are unalienable rights. For everyone. I believe all people are created equal, regardless of country of origin or citizenship, race, gender, color or creed. I honor the American flag and what it symbolizes. And because I …

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MARTIN C. FREDRICKS IV: Four The Record — Child’s Religion

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This early morning quiet Many inches on the ground Falling softly still, six-fifteen Straight down, not a sound. The sagging branches, wet white Up north Dakota Territory The way of it at thirty degrees Another clean winter story. Tip toe up and down Whisper softly to each one No school today, ice and snow Maybe heaps before it’s done. Really …

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MARTIN C. FREDRICKS IV: Four The Record — Sound Of Freedom

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It’s been 26 years and 29 days since I wrote this piece. I was fresh out of North Dakota State University and in my first “real” job — editor of The Courant, the “Official Newspaper of Bottineau County, N.D.” I think of it every year about this time. I’ve always thought it’s not half-bad. I hope you do, too. For the …

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MARTIN C. FREDRICKS IV: Four The Record — Kids Just Wanna Have Their Planet

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Leave it to a bunch of kids. Twenty-one of them from around the United States filed a “constitutional climate lawsuit” against the U.S. government in 2015. At the time, they ranged in age from 9 to 20. For the most part they were, and still are, people with next-to-zero voice in our formal political system. Even so, they’re out in …

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MARTIN C. FREDRICKS IV: Four The Record — Good Fence Makes Good Neighbors

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Pour, Water, Tamp, Mix, Tamp… His name is Dennis. Five years of living 60 or 70 yards away, just over the backyard fence, I really should’ve known that already. I stood on his front step, shaking his hand and explaining that the posts that should’ve been holding up a couple of sections of our shared fence had rotted out. He’d …

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MARTIN C. FREDRBlow It Out … Your Gas

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Call Your Senators — Oppose Efforts to Repeal the BLM Methane Flaring Rule The splash of light in the center of North America at night, seen from space, shines like the opposite of a black eye. It doesn’t mark a big city or conglomeration of cities like the other light spots across the continent. In fact, it’s coming from where there …

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MARTIN FREDRICKS: Four The Record — Thoughts About Pops References

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No one has called me “Pops” to my face yet, but it’s only a matter of time. A young colleague recently showed me a graphic meant to accompany a client’s social media post. It dealt with clean water in underdeveloped areas. Prominently featured was a blue bus. I shook my head. “Makes me think of Jim Morrison,” I said, assuming the underlying narcotic …

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